The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-09
PERSONAL.

IT is said that there is no living relative of
| Tom Moore, the poet.
REV. c. H. SPuRGEoN, of London, has Just
| celebrated his sd birthday.
WILLIAM T. ADAMS, OLIVER Optic) the author,
| has Just returned from Europe.
| WILLIAM WoRTHtNGToN, of Rockford Ill
owns "A lool1ing-glass which came over in the
Maytlower
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, of Wales, recently
| went TO Gibraltar for a months stay and took
| with him thirty tons of baggage.
Gov. THAYER. of Nebraska. has appointed rs
| State Secretary of Labor Statistics Mr.. John
| jenkins, a mechanic. of Omaha.
| w. W. CoRcoRAN is slowly growing stronger
at Deer park, but he will in all probability never
walk again His mental faculties are as vigor-
| Gus as ever
| Francis RoNDo the Wisconsin pioneer
| who died last week at Fond du Lac. aged more
than 100 years, is said TO have left Asa descend
ants in three generations
RoBERr LOUIS STEVENSON will come to this
| country in September for year, in the hope of
| building up his early shattered health While
| here he will ranch it in the South and West.
SECRETARY wHrrNEY's picnic on the Fourth at
| 'Grasslands,' rendered the employees of the
| Navy Department, was great success II was
| largely attended and everybody seemed to have
good time.
Gov. HUGHES, of Arkansas gets two suits of
clothes year regularly from Georgia, the ma
terial being woven and his clothes being made
up In that state. He has just received his sum
nler outfit from the Goober State. 1t is made
of checked cottonade.
MAYOR HEWITT says that it is within his per-
sonal knowledge that Queen Victoria was asked
to join with the French government IN the re-
Cogniton of the Southern Confederacy and
that she refused to do so. He personally carried
the message to this effect from Minister Dayton
TO Minister Adams
SECRETARY WHITNEY is actively pushing q
scheme for the establishment of large riding
school in Washington. He has recently become
an active member of the Columbia Athletic
Club, the most prominent organization of its
kind at the capital, and manifests an increasing
interest in athletic doings OF all kinds
WALTER MURRAY GIBSON, Premier of the
Hawaiian Kingdom, is a man over 10 years Of
age, but hale and vigorous, Miss Howard ST.
Clair, a handsome California book agent, claims
that the Premier has failed to keep n promise of
marriage, ana hat the sum of 500, will Just
about quiet the throbbings of her more or less
broken heart. F
THE illness OF John Boyle o'Reily, of Boston
is cause for general regret His ceaseless en-.
ergy and industry have brought on temporary
insomnia, and be viii be obliged to take long
and thorough rest. lIeissurey entitled TO an
extended vacation. He has worked hard and
successfully IN the past and has won high
place in the literary and journalistic worlds.
IT has been said that Mrs Langtry was the
first woman TO take out papers of American
citizenship This is a mistake. Mrs Bracken
ridge, of Breckenridge Place, Pa is native Of
Germany. Some years ago she wished TO be.
come one of the incorporators Of a ferry com
pnny IL was decided by legal authority that Il
was necessary for her 70 take out papers Of
citizenship, which she did on Dec. 16, fSS2 She
heads the list
The REV GEoRGE w, WOODWARD. who died in
Chicago last week was a direct descendant OF
Capt. Miles Standish and grandson of the first
professor In Dartmouth College. His father
was also professor there at the time of the
celebrated lawsuit in which Daniel Webster
pleaded so eloqueutly for the college and his
wife, assisted by their son, Just deceased hid the
important documents IN the case in an oat.
bin until MI. Webster could come on from Bos-
ton and take charge Of them.